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You can do anything, not everything

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What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone.
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Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.
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Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.
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